# roar
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English roren, raren, from Old English rārian (“to roar; wail; lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *rairōn, from Proto-Germanic *rairōną (“to bellow; roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to shout; bellow; yell; bark”), perhaps of imitative origin.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian roorje (“to roar”), German röhren (“to roar”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rô, IPA: /ɹɔː/
* (General American) enPR: rôr, IPA: /ɹoɹ/
* (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: rōr, IPA: /ɹo(ː)ɹ/
* (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /ɹoə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
* Homophone: raw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

### Verb

roar (third-person singular simple present roars, present participle roaring, simple past and past participle roared)
* (intransitive) To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
** a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 434:Sole on the barren ſands the ſuff'ring chief / Roar'd out for anguiſh, and indulg'd his grief.
* To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
    The audience roared at his jokes.
* Of animals (especially a lion), to make a loud deep noise.
    The lioness roared to scare off the hyenas.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, , stanzas 6-7, page 14:Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
* Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar.
** [1716], [John] Gay, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC:How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar.
* (figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
** 2011 January 25, Phil McNulty, “Blackpool 2-3 Man Utd”, in BBC:United's attempt to extend their unbeaten league sequence to 23 games this season looked to be in shreds as the Seasiders - managed by Ian Holloway - roared into a fully deserved two-goal lead at the interval.
* (transitive) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
** 1639, John Ford, The Lady's Trial:This last action will roar thy infamy.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
* To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
** 1724, Gilbert Burnet, History of My Own Time:It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
* To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
* (British Yorkshire, North Midlands, informal) To cry.
** 1886, James Orchard Halliwell, “Third Class: Tales: LX”, in The Nursery Rhymes of England:Tom, Tom, the piper's son, Stole a pig, and away he run! The pig was eat, and Tom was beat, And Tom went roaring down the street.

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### Noun

roar (plural roars)
* A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
* The cry of the lion.
** 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told. So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.
* The deep cry of the bull.
* A loud resounding noise.
    the roar of a motorbike
** 1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 107:
    "Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting."
* A show of strength or character.

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### Derived terms

* die roaring
* die roaring for a priest
* hell-roaring
* rip-roaring
* roar ahead
* roar away
* roar back
* roaring boy
* roaring cat
* roaring drunk
* roaring forties
* roaring game
* roaring success
* roar off
* roar on
* roar out
* space roar
* within a bull's roar

### Anagrams

* Raro, orra

## Mokilese
### Verb

roar
* (intransitive) to shudder

## Swedish
### Verb

roar
* present indicative of roa